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Bees in the Rhone-Alpes Region Plants and insects have been strongly connected for several hundreds of million years. With the appearance of flowers, pollinators or nectar gatherers largely diversified and began to play a major role the transport of the pollen. This co-evolution is particularly important between bees and flowers, as the nutrition activity of some relies on the pollination of the others. The word "bee" applies to Apoidea Apiformis, represented by nearly 1000 species in France, among which only one species is bred in beehives. The decline of pollinators, including bees, is becoming more and more alarming. The majority of our wild and cultivated plants depend, for their reproduction, on the pollinating activity of insects, bees in particular. Thus, the fauna of bees of Rhone-Alpes and France is still widely underestimated, for lack of references and of specialists. It is crucial to enhance our knowledge, to better understand and apprehend the impact of our actions in order to decrease the worrisome loss of biodiversity. This article tries to offer briefly some elements to enter the vast bee-world.